Linux Kernel: Moving Closer To Windows?
Talkback I am a systems admin for both Unix (AIX,Solaris, HP-UX) and VMS (VAX, Alpha). Dave Cutler was a VMS contributor in the early days of VMS but that was at around version 3 or 4 and still living on a VAX.
[July 2, 2004, 17:42]
Itanium Gives OpenVMS New Lease On Life
News The longtime VAX VMS users had to go through a very painful process to become Alpha VMS users. The VMS customer base is a loyal one by all accounts, but that alone doesn't secure a future for an architecture.
[February 4, 2003, 7:52]
Guy Kewney: Alpha Chance For Intel?
News You can no longer get NT for Alpha, and you will never be able to get Windows XP for Alpha; so you're stuck with VMS. Even if you think VMS is as wonderful as its users say, it's still a tiny proportion of the market; and the Alpha is the only chip...
[July 10, 2001, 16:23]
Compaq Ignites Wildfire Servers
News It will run Compaqs Tru64 Unix (formerly Digital Unix) and Open VMS, with Linux to follow. Up to 16 nodes can be clustered under VMS or eight nodes under Tru64. Last year, Compaq and Microsoft announced that Alpha would no longer be developed for...
[April 5, 2000, 8:30]
OpenVMS Alive And Kicking On SuperDome
News We still run a lot of critical systems on VMS," said OpenVMS systems manager Reg Palmer of Centrica, the company that owns the AA and British Gas. We'll keep it for several years," added Palmer, who said he found the demos of VMS on Itanium2...
[May 7, 2004, 10:05]
HP's OpenVMS Throws Itanium Lifeline
News OpenVMS began its life in 1977 as VMS, the operating system that powered Digital Equipment Corp.s once-dominant VAX computers. I'm somewhat concerned about the future of VMS if there's no good hardware to run it on.
[January 17, 2005, 15:05]
Longhorn No Window Of Opportunity For Itanium
Talkback You're quite right, in that Windows NT started off on x86, PowerPC, DEC Alpha AXP, and MIPS CPUs (not bad for a rewrite of VMS in C, eh? then just x86 and Alpha - and then no Alpha. The reasons for this shucking off of options had little to do...
[April 12, 2005, 12:34]
HP's AlphaServer Reaches End Of Line
News That software, born more than 25 years ago as VMS (Virtual Memory System), is being moved to the Itanium processor. However, HP plans to update it with a faster processor in 2004, the EV79, which the company said would be the final processor in the...
[October 20, 2003, 11:40]
Linux Kernel: Moving Closer To Windows?
News Windows, said Russinovich, owes a great deal to a project led by David Cutler, one of the creators of Digital's VMS operating system, to port Windows to what was then Digital's 64-bit Alpha processor.
[July 1, 2004, 15:05]
Linux Bandwagon Gains Compaq
News We're looking to leverage the same kind of clustering technology on our Unix environment as we have on our VMS system," said Joe Pollizzi, deputy division head at the Space Telescope Science Institute, in Baltimore.
[January 18, 1999, 12:15]
HP Customers Still Searching For The Adaptive Enterprise
News We run a lot of critical systems on VMS and Tru64, and we'll keep those for several years yet," Palmer noted. It did come as a nasty shock," said Palmer, referring to the first time he heard that the Alpha chip would be discontinued, "but if there...
[May 5, 2004, 13:25]
HP-UX Is Dead!
Talkback HP-UX is dead (or close to it) just like Tru-64, VMS, Alpha, PA-RISC and the slow sinking Itanic.http://www.boingboing.net/2004/10/22/hp_sends_suns_presid.html Looks like HP is willing to give away an Itanium system to find out whos still using HP-UX!
[July 25, 2007, 15:04]
US Report: Digital CEO Palmer Steps Down
News Rose will also oversee the Alpha and Open VMS development that was brought on board with the Digital acquisition. Compaq outlined the management structure of the new company, which completely subsumes the Tandem division.
[June 11, 1998, 7:33]
Developers 'should Be Accountable' For Security Holes
Talkback VMS uses descriptors to define strings while the insecure operating systems of the world don't. The "no execute" bit was recently rediscovered by Intel and AMD but Alpha had it on day one. Howard Schmidt sounds like yet another egghead who hasn't...
[October 12, 2005, 16:39]
